From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: Gerry Reno <grenoml@yahoo.com>
Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: strings failing
Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 19:52:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.56.0309021550520.14738@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030902183124.37416.qmail@web14408.mail.yahoo.com>
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Gerry Reno wrote:
> Has anyone seen behavior like this:
>
> On Cygwin 1.3.18 I am seeing strange failures with trying to use
> strings. Strings does not seem able to see some files yet 'ls' shows
> them, 'od -cx' shows them. Also gcc has similar problem in that it is
> reporting: no such file or directory on some compiles.
>
> $strings /lib/libc.a
> d:\mingw\bin\strings.exe: /lib/libc.a: No such file or directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> (This happens for any file in /lib)
>
> Any ideas what may be causing strings to fail?
> thx,
> Gerry Reno
You mean, aside from the fact that you aren't using Cygwin's "strings"?
MinGW programs aren't aware of Cygwin mounts. I suspect you're using
MinGW gcc as well.
Igor
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2003-09-02 18:31 Gerry Reno
2003-09-02 19:52 ` Igor Pechtchanski [this message]
2003-09-02 20:14 ` Gerry Reno
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